This flat, low impact walk will happen at the 2.5-acre MCC Plaza, built on top of an underground parking deck and surrounded by an urban meadow planted with prairie grasses and wildflowers. It is downtown’s largest pollinator refuge. Designed by for environmental sustainability, the Plaza also includes native tree and plant species, and irrigation utilizing the MCC’s stormwater capture system. In 2022, the Plaza was awarded Silver certification under the Sustainable SITES Initiative rating system for achievement in landscape sustainability. The MCC Plaza is the nation’s first SITES certified project to be located at a convention center and the first ever SITES certified project in the Upper Midwest.